The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-06

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Hartford Post.
"CAN President Cleveland obtain
the electoral vote of New York again?
We are not disposed to express conf
dence on this point so long in advance
of the election. "-Boston Herald. The
| Herald is not too cautious.
The warm Europe seems to be over,
unless the Gar should conclude that
his personal safety would be insured by
a fearful increase of national debt and
the slaughter and death by fever of
some hundreds of thousands of his
people.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: "All
the signs indicate that from this time
forward the Presidents friends will
conduct an aggressive campaign to
secure his denomination" And yet in
1884 he put himself on record against a
second term.
THE world will soon demand that
Germany and France either "put up
or shut up" for their constantly re-
newed changes from hostile attitude
to cordially and back again are becom-
ing exceedingly tiresome. York
Commercial Advertiser.
BEFORE the Inauguration of the next
president fully Observation-Disclosures of
the public offices will have been filled
by democrats; but the mugwumps will
continue to "point with pride " to the
devotion of the President to civil serv-
ice ideas. american.
SOUTHERN bourbons are much dis
turbed by the discovery that the anti
discrimination clause of the interstate
commerce law prevents railroads cross
ing state lines compelling colored peo-
pie to ride in second-class cars when
they pay for first-class accommodations
THE Car of Russia has survived the
delirium tremens, gone through two or
three assassinations and escaped in
Vulnerable dynamite plots. 1t is our
belief that the Gar would make a good
baseball umpire, or possibly he would
be good man to dun delinquent sub
scribers. We can give him a situation
after the LIST of May.
THE supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that the conditions and contract
that are mentioned on the blank mes
sages of a telegraph company are not
binding on the sender of the messages,
although he may have knowledge of
them, they being invalid, as the tele-
graph company cannot contract against
its own negligence.
WE want some larger issue than the
democratic demand for the spoils, and
the protection of American industry is
that issue. Let the New South abandon
the struggle for the post-offices and go
in with the republican party for busy
mills, fiourishing factories, productive
mines-for education and elevation all
along the line.-Sprinqfeld Union.
THE latest mugwump lie about Mr..
Blaine, which is eagerly copied by such
papers as the Free Press, is that she
has decided to go abroad to indicate his
indifference to his party" and is abso-
lutely disguised with the constant pres
sure brought to bear upon him TO accept
the nomination" The absurdity of the
whole story is too apparent to need
refutation.
"THE assertion that Vermont is, or has
been, ruled by corrupt railroad ring
has been repeated by a few papers of
the stamp of the New York Erening
Post and Springfield Republican till,
perhaps, they begin to believe it. 1t
was, however, originally a distinct
falsehood, and is still distinct and
base SANDER. "-BurlingtO Free Press.
Carry the news to the r. Y. and the
II. G.
A CORRESPONDENT wishes to know
"why the Providence Journal opposes
the election of Governor Wetmore."
Because its editor has become mug
wump, we suppose. This reason may
not be specific, but it is ample. Indeed,
when a man becomes a mugwump
specific explanations of his conduct are
not only unnecessary but also impossi-
BILE. One might as well inquire why
lunatic imagines himself to be Julius
Caesar or George Washington. Com
cord Monitor.
TIMES change, and especially the
New York Times. When the new sec
rotary of the treasury, Mr.. Fairchild,
completed his term of office as attor-
ney-general of New York the Times
alluded to him as compounder of
thieves, Whitewater of public plum
derers and ridiculously feeble public
official. Now it pronounces his appoint
ment by the President as thoroughly
good one. The mugwump papers are
bound to be pleased with whatever Mr..
Cleveland does.
IN regard to the mention of Senator
Cullom's name for the presidency the
Tribune says: "Mr. Cullom's idea is
that the party may come to the position
where it will be considered desirable to
put aside the older leaders and take
new men for the standard-bearers, in
which case he thinks he might have as
good chance as any new man. This
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